markhaase.bsky.social
@markhaase.bsky.social
Therapist (https://www.betterhelp.com/mark-haase); husband; father; incipient cartoonist and flash-fiction writer; observer of autocratic governments (I.e., the US); and a few other things I might write but my Vyvanse has given up the ghost.
"Kenneth R. Weinstein, who will review complaints about CBS News, was head of the right-leaning Hudson Institute, a think tank, and has no experience overseeing news coverage." (The New York Times)
September 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
President Trump: Who you got sitting next to me?
Jared: Either your granddaughter, the pillow dude, or some guy who said he's Millard Fillmore sleeping under a hot dog cart.
September 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
1. I'm reading the powerful book by the former U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, The Conscience of a Liberal. A quote stood out: "We need to get people energized and involved. We need to motivate and coordinate progressive organizations. We will need active citizen politics to triumph over powerful...
August 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
"Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences." (Donald Trump)

President Trump actually wrote this. Life is so paradoxical, that this will probably be the one quote he is remembered by.
August 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
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July 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, said today's protests in Los Angeles were a "violent insurrection."

I'm just glad a violent insurrection has never happened in Washington, D.C., say, at the U.S. Capitol.
June 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM